Building on the momentum of a highly successful Genetics Day in the Fall, the Institute for Human Genetics will host Winter Genetics Day on Thursday, February 15, 2018, beginning at 1:00pm at Parnassus in HSW-301. Special guest and keynote speaker … Continue reading →

Navneet Matharu, PhD received the 2017 Charles J. Epstein Trainee Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Research at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, as well as a prize for the winning abstract presented at IHG’s … Continue reading →

The IHG is happy to announce a restructuring of our weekly seminars. For the 2017-2018 academic year, we will replace our weekly seminars with Genetics Day mini-symposia, to be held quarterly. The inaugural Fall Genetics Day event will be held … Continue reading →

The IHG and Genomic Medicine Initiative (GMI) hosted a special event on Tuesday, June 27 to celebrate the launch of clinical whole exome sequencing at UCSF. This new service is a groundbreaking achievement in realizing the goals of precision medicine … Continue reading →

The Institute for Human Genetics and Genomic Medicine Initiative are proud to announce the launch of clinical whole exome sequencing at UCSF. This milestone event in the history of UCSF and the IHG was made possible through the concerted efforts of … Continue reading →

The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) launched a public research consortium named ENCODE, the Encyclopedia Of DNA Elements, in 2003, with the goal of understanding the DNA grammar of non-coding sequences, which constitutes 98% of the human genome. A … Continue reading →

The IHG community gathered at the Forest Hill Clubhouse on December 13, 2016 to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of our Organized Research Unit and the year-end holidays. The evening featured the professional magician-comedian Robert Strong as well as our own … Continue reading →

U.S. News & World Report has, for the second year in a row, ranked UCSF #3 in Molecular Biology and Human Genetics. In their recent report for 2016, published October 24, 2016, benchmarked against 1000 institutions across 65 countries, UCSF was … Continue reading →

UCSF has a longstanding relationship to the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG), dating back to the arrival of Charlie and Lois Epstein at UCSF in 1967. Three UCSF faculty members have served as ASHG presidents, and many more have … Continue reading →

U.S. News & World Report has created a new system to rank universities globally. In their recent report for 2015, published in October, benchmarked against 750 institutions across 60 countries, UCSF was ranked #23. However, in the area of Molecular … Continue reading →

Postdoctoral position in Epigenomics and Stem Cell Biology A Postdoctoral position in Epigenomics and Stem Cell Biology is available in the Institute for Human Genetics and the Department of Neurology at UCSF. We use a combination of genomics, genetics, and … Continue reading →

Congratulations to the winners of the IHG Symposium 2015 poster session. The award for Best Poster by a Graduate Student was given to Meena Subramaniam (Ye and Zaitlen labs). Yambazi Banda (Risch lab) and Emilie Barruet (Hsiao lab) shared the … Continue reading →

If it wasn’t clear before, it was by the end of the symposium when Y.W. Kan received a lengthy standing ovation that his work is revered and appreciated by top geneticists around the world. The IHG was proud to celebrate … Continue reading →

The IHG is proud to announce that Louis Ptáček will receive the American Society for Clinical Investigation’s Stanley J. Korsmeyer Award and Ophir Klein will be awarded the E Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research. Louis Ptáček, MD, PhD is a … Continue reading →

Dr. Lois Barth Epstein, a beloved member of the UCSF Human Genetics community, passed away on February 6, 2015 after a short illness. A 1959 graduate of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Epstein moved to San Francisco to join the UCSF … Continue reading →

At the recent 2014 annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in San Diego, the ASHG Award for Excellence in Human Genetics Education was given to our own Suzanne Cassidy, MD. The award was established to recognize those … Continue reading →

The IHG is pleased to co-sponsor this World Affairs Council Business Forum, featuring IHG faculty member Robert L. Nussbaum, MD. Next-generation genomics can be described as the combination of sequencing technologies and big data analytics. The potential impact of this disruptive technology … Continue reading →

We are pleased to announce UCSF Informatics Day — Leveraging Clinical Data for Research was a resounding success! Thanks to all who joined for the inaugural UCSF Informatics Day! With over 400 UCSF Faculty, Students, and Staff in attendance; and a program … Continue reading →

We are pleased to announce the UCSF INFORMATICS DAY — Leveraging Clinical Data for Research. The event will showcase clinical data sources for use in basic, translational, and clinical research. Over the past few years, UCSF has significantly expanded its informatics … Continue reading →

Laurie Stevison, PhD, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the IHG, was recently awarded the John Maynard Smith prize for outstanding young evolutionary biologist from the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB). Stevison will give the JMS 2014 prize lecture at the ESEB … Continue reading →

Wylie Burke, PhD, MD, Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington, has been named the 2013-14 UCSF Presidential Chair. The IHG serves as one of Professor Burke’s hosts for this Chair, awarded to encourage new, interdisciplinary program … Continue reading →

By Selena R. Martinez — When I was twelve years old my father was diagnosed with advanced gastric cancer. He had surgery to remove his stomach, underwent chemotherapy and spent a lot of the next year in and out of … Continue reading →

Two long-term genetics faculty retired on June 30, 2013. We would be remiss if we didn’t acknowledge their long term contributions to the field of human genetics both locally and nationally/internationally. Jane Gitscher, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics and … Continue reading →